Purpose

The approval of a revised Major
Incident Plan, Council Recovery Framework and Council Critical
Activities (Business Continuity), and policy statement.

Decision

ROTHERHAM METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL

 

RECORD OF OFFICER EXECUTIVE DECISION

 

Date of Decision:

3rd July 2024

Title:

Integrated Incident Response and Recovery
Plan

Decision Maker:
(Including Job
Title)

Sam Barstow
Assistant Director, Community Safety and
Street Scene

Specific Delegation:
(If any)

As per the Amended Sub Scheme of Delegation
– Regeneration and Environment (March 2024); Section
7  - Any function not
otherwise reserved to the full Council, the Cabinet, a committee of
the Cabinet, a member of the Cabinet, a joint committee discharging
executive functions or another local authority, relevant to the
Assistant Director’s portfolio.

Brief Description of
Decision:

To approve the formal adoption of the Draft
Integrated Incident Response and Recovery Plan (dated June
2024)

Reasons for the Decision:

The previous Major Incident Plan, Framework
for Recovery and Business Continuity Framework are updated and
amalgamated into one holistic and overarching plan.
 
The Council, as a category 1 responder, is
required under the Civil Contingences Act to “maintain
plans for preventing emergencies; reducing, controlling or
mitigating the effects of emergencies in both the response and
recovery phases; and taking other action in the event of
emergencies”
Emergency
Preparedness (Chapter 5) October 2011
Emergency_Preparedness_chapter5_amends_21112011.pdf
(publishing.service.gov.uk)
 
The attached Integrated Incident Response and
Recovery Plan seeks to achieve this statutory requirement.

Details of alternative options
considered and rejected:

The plan has been reviewed and updated in line
with learning from recent local and national incidents as well as
processes and practices tested in recent responses to
incidents.

Conflicts of interest declared by any
Executive Member consulted by the decision maker which relates to
the decision:

None

Dispensations Granted:
(If any)

 
 

Reports or parts of reports
considered

Delegated Officer Decision Report –
Integrated Incident Response and Recovery Plan

 
I certify that this
is a true record of the executive decision to approve the formal adoption of the Draft Integrated Incident
Response and Recovery Plan
 
Signed by the
Decision Maker  
Dated: 3rd July, 2024
 
Name: Sam
Barstow                           
Job Title: Assistant Director,
Community Safety & Street Scene